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are our weekly listings for the summer months.
Watch this list for further details to be filled in and other
possible updates.
| 7/5 | How Can I Keep from Singing? A three-hour special in honor of one of America's greatest folk heroes, Pete Seeger. These programs will feature interviews with Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Judy Collins, and some members of the original Almanac Singers and The Weavers. Produced by David Dunaway. |
| 7/12 | Next Generation: Music from younger artists: The Mammals, Crooked Still, Eliza Carthy, Martha Tilston, Lou Rhodes, Mia Doi Todd, new psych folk. |
| 7/19 | Sandy Miranda will be guest host with her usual surprises. |
| 7/26 | Bands: Scottish bands Lau and the Battlefield Band, Dervish and others from Ireland, the Turtle Island String Quartet, and more. |
| 8/2 | Local Folk Showcase: Presenting some of our finest local home-grown musical talent, including Toshio Hirano and his band performing the music of Jimmie Rodgers and also the bad boys of a capella, the Edlos. |
| 8/9 | Scotland and England: A range of new and old favorites, from Waterson:Carthy, Steve Tilston, the Battlefield Band, Flook, many others. |
| 8/16 | The Dark Side of Americana: Music by Jeb Loy Nichols, the Waifs, Crooked Still, the Stairwell Sisters, Gillian Welch, Charlie Musselwhite. |
| 8/23 | Soul Poetry: Representatives from the Great Night of Soul Poetry happening that night at the Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse in Berkeley, plus more soulful poetry. |
| 8/30 | Labor Day: Songs in celebration of laborers everywhere. |
| 9/6 | Wayfaring Strangers: Songs about wanderers from the band Wayfaring Strangers, Herdman, Hills & Mangsen, Jim & Jean, others. |
| 9/13 | Brother Can You Spare a Dime? It's that time of the year when we come to you, asking for your financial support to keep KALW going for the next six months. |
| 9/20 | New Releases: Highlights will include the new Dougie MacLean double CD retrospective and a recent Celtic music compilation. |
| 9/27 | TBA. |
If you want what visible reality
can give, you're an employee.
If you want the unseen world,
you're not living your truth.
Both wishes are foolish,
but you'll be forgiven for forgetting
that what you really want is
love's confusing joy.
—Rumi, tr. Coleman Barks